Proverbs and Sayings from Elsewhere, from other parts of the world.
- Those who win become emperors and those who lose become bandits.
In original language: Chinese
Community/language of origin: Chinese
Country: China - The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its arse.
Other variations …:
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its butt.
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its tail.
The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt
The more a monkey climbs a tree higher, the more it exposes its nakedness
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: China - To handle others use your heart, to handle yourself use your head.
Community/language of origin: English
Country: USA - It doesn’t matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice.
Community/language of origin: Chinese
Country: China - Patience is a tree whose roots are bitter, but whose fruits are sweet.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
Community/language of origin: Spanish
Country: Spain - God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: USA -
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Community/language of origin: English, attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Country: USA - Never open your door to the least of your misfortunes. If you do, the rest will follow.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - Wedlock is like a place besieged, those without wish to get in, those without want to get out.
Other forms:
Marriage is like a besieged city, everyone on the outside wants to get in, anyone on the inside wants to get out.
French:
Le mariage est une forteresse assiégée, ceux qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, ceux qui sont dedans veulent en sortir.
Community/language of origin: English proverb
Country: England - Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.
Community/language of origin: Arabian Proverb
Country: Unknown - Friend are like shoes, some loose some tight.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - Once you grip the head of a serpent, the rest of the body is a piece of rope.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - Give a thousand chances to your enemy to become a friend but do not give a single chance to your friend to become an enemy.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - A lion’s power lies in our fear of it.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - On a day your luck is out, even cold porridge will burn you.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - It is better to have a wise enemy than a foolish friend.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - Blowing out someone else’s candle will not make yours shine any brighter.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - It does not matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: China - Try not to make enemies deliberately, because you make so many accidentally.
Community/language of origin: English
Country: United Kingdom - Consider the past and you shall know the future.
Community/language of origin: China/Chinese
Country: China - If the water is too clear, then there is nothing for the fish to eat.
Community/language of origin: Chinese
Country: China - Even if a monkey wears a gold ring, it is and remains an ugly creature
In original language: Al draagt een aap een gouden ring, het is en blijft een lelijk ding
Community/language of origin: Dutch - Like father, like son.
In original language: An Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm.
Community/language of origin: Germany
Country: Germany
Read more about An Apfel fällt nicht - Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.
Community/language of origin: Unknown
Country: Unknown - Every journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.
Community/language of origin: Chinese
Country: China
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